The Boxer Chords by Waylon Jennings

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I am just a poor boy, though my story's [Am] seldom told, [G] I have squandered my resistance, for a pocketful of mumbles such [C] are promising.
_ _ All [A] lies and jests, [G] still a man hears what he wants [F] to hear and disregard [C] the rest.
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_ _ _ _ _ I left my home and family, I was no more [A] than a boy [G] in the company of strangers, in the quiet of a railway [C] station running scared.
_ _ [Am] Laying low, [G] seeking out the [F] poor quarters where the ragged [C] people go, [G] looking for the [F] places only [C] they would know.
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_ _ _ _ _ Asking only workman's wages, I come looking [Am] for a job, but I [G] get no offer, _ just to come on from the whores on Seventh Avenue.
[C] _ _ I [Am] do declare there were [G] some times I [F] was so lonesome that I took some [C] comfort there.
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In the clearing stands a boxer and a fighter [Am] by his trade, [G] and he carries the reminder of every glove that lay him [C] down and cut him, till he cried out in his anger [Am] and his shame.
[G] I am leaving, [F] I am leaving, but the fighter [C] still remains.
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